This period of racial retrenchment, specifically the rabid anti-CRT rage, is nothing new. You can cut and paste MLK's words from 50 years ago:
"It is called the “white backlash.” But the white backlash is nothing new. It is the surfacing of old prejudices, hostilities and 1/
"It is called the “white backlash.” But the white backlash is nothing new. It is the surfacing of old prejudices, hostilities and 1/
2/ "ambivalences that have always been there. It was caused neither by the cry of Black Power nor by the unfortunate recent wave of riots in our cities. The white backlash of today is rooted in the same problem that has characterized America ever since the black man landed in
3/ "chains on the shores of this nation. The white backlash is an expression of the same vacillations, the same search for rationalizations, the same lack of commitment that have always characterized white America on the question of race. What is the source of this perennial
4/ "indecision and vacillation? It lies in the “congenital deformity” of racism that has crippled the nation from its inception. ...
"[F]or the good of America, it is necessary to refute the idea that the dominant ideology in our country even today is freedom and equality while
"[F]or the good of America, it is necessary to refute the idea that the dominant ideology in our country even today is freedom and equality while
5/5 "racism is just an occasional departure from the norm on the part of a few bigoted extremists."
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